Super Bowl: NFL owners are billionaires, not on our side. (Check these Patriots owner pictures)

[sharedvalues]

I love New England and thus am going to root a little bit for the Patriots.

But let's just remember that NFL owners are billionaires out to screw their millionaire players.

This is Bob Kraft, Patriots owner, hanging out with perhaps the most corrosive element to US democracy: Rupert Murdoch.

Kraft often has Murdoch in his owners' box. It's hard for me to root for anyone who doesn't ostracize Murdoch, the billionaire who owns Fox News and has damaged American democracy just for tax cuts for himself.










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And this pic is a little unfair, as Kraft only met Putin once or twice. But it does indicate that there is a class of worldwide billionaires that sees themselves as friends regardless of their origin country. And they're all out to screw the little guy - in the US, the UK (Australia) or Russia.

[CincyDem]

1. Isnt that putin pic the one where he acquired a super bowl ring?

I have this vague recollection of and interaction where an owner showed Putin his super bowl ring and put in decided to keep it as a gift. The owner has since pubivally said it wasn’t a gift and put in had said all he has to do is come back and ask me for it. Hadn’t happened yet.

Wasn’t that Kraft?

[sharedvalues]

2. That's correct. Putin took it from Kraft.

The essential point though is that Kraft and Putin can be buds - because they're both billionaires. From Kraft's point of view, it's better to suck up to Putin because he's a billionaire than to shun him because he murders journalists and attacks America.


Key explanation is here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/the-weakening-of-nations-how-tax-work-arounds-undermine-our-society/252779/

How billionaires consider themselves a class apart, with little regard for the nation they're from, and disregard for average people in their countries.

[GWC58]

3. As a rule I usually pull for the AFC.

I’m rooting for the 🦅’s. Last year I was pulling for the Falcons. My least favorite teams play in the AFC. They are, in no particular order: Patriots, Steelers & Colts. The Colts because they snuck out of Baltimore.

[Merlot]

4. Who's the guy standing behind murdoch in top pic?

Looks like Michael from Breaking Bad...oh, if only.

[dsc]

5. Not all of them

The Rooney family who owns the Steelers are big time Dems. I think Cleveland's ownership group is also Democratic.

[louis c]

6. You mean Rooney, as in Congressman Rooney from Naples Fal.?

I think all the Rooney Democrats are dead.

[dsc]

7. I was referring to Art and Dan Rooney

Dan was ambassador to Ireland under Obama. I thought Dan was still alive but he isn't. I don't know about Art II who is the current owner.

[sharedvalues]

9. That's the point - they're billionaires. Few billionaires are really pro-Dem

A few are. Nick Hanauer (not a billionaire exactly, but close).

There's the 'patriotic millionaires' group.



But Bob Kraft donates a lot to Dems, but he's good friends with hateful Rupert Murdoch too. Why? Because a lot of billionaires feel a lot closer to other billionaires than they do to their country, or to working class people anywhere.

[maxrandb]

12. It's all a sham

Kraft gives to Retrumplicans, and then a little pittance to the Dems to "cover his bases".

He doesn't want to appear "biased". Kind of like why MSNBC give a half hour to Hugh Hewitt every Saturday and Sunday.

This guys a fucking prick. He's a trumpy and so is his cheating QB and Head Coach.

Fuck him.

The French knew how to deal with these fuckers during the French Revolution.

[sharedvalues]

13. Wouldnt go that far. But hes a billionaire

And Kraft supports Murdoch. That’s not on our side.

[maxrandb]

14. We've got president shitgibbon

Calling Dems un-American and treasonous because they didn't cheer for the fuckwad... and silence from the Retrumplicans.

I don't think we can go far enough to denounce these fascists and their enablers

[MFM008]

8. Why I'm watching animal planet...

Even our Seahawks owner billionaire...

[a kennedy]

10. Love the puppy bowl........

🐶 🐶 🐶 🐶 🐶

[a kennedy]

11. and oh my, only NFL football team that is NOT owned by one guy, or family IS.....

the Green Bay Packers. They are owned by thousands of share holders like me. I’ve got one share and feel like a hundredaire.